250 NOTES ON SOME BURMESE BIRDS. 



it is a rare bird in Burinah there can be no doubt, for I have 

 shot only the one specimen now about to be described, and I am 

 not in the habit of passing- birds over in the jungle. I kill 

 every thing- that I cannot identify at a glance. Sinensis 

 abounds here in Lower Pegu, and the two birds cannot be con- 

 founded. 



Mr. Hume has kindly lent me his Bhootan Dooar's specimen 

 for comparison. His bird and mine agree in the most minute 

 particulars, and there can be very little doubt but that the 

 specimens from Assam are the same. 



I drew up the following description before skinning the bird : — 



Length 605 ; expanse, 7*4 ; tail, 3'1 ; wing, 2 - 4 ; tarsus, '96 ; 

 bill from gape, *55 ; from forehead, -38 ; height through nostrils, 

 •23 ; 5th, 6th and 7th primaries sub-equal and longest, 8th very 

 slightly shorter, and equal to the 4th, 3rd 25, 2nd "55 and 1st 

 1*0 shorter than the longest. Under tail-coverts fall short of 

 tip of tail by 2, and the distance between the shortest and 

 longest rectrix 1*7. 



Upper mandible, pale horn color, under one, pinkish ; 

 eyelids yellow, but not tumid as in sinensis ; iris brown, 

 surrounded by a pinkish ring ; inside of mouth flesh color ; 

 legs brownish flesh color ; claws pinkish horn. 



Chin, throat and upper breast, greyish white ; lores and a 

 conspicuous streak over the eye dirty white, the centres of the 

 feathers black ; the forehead and top of head rather bright 

 reddish brown, the feathers of the forehead largely centred 

 with blackish ; the whole upper plumage, with the cheeks and 

 ear-coverts, uuiform reddish brown, paler than the head : smaller 

 wing coverts, the same, but each feather edged still paler ; 

 quills brown, with a broad outer edging of reddish-brown and an 

 interior edging of a paler tint ; tertiaries nearly entirely reddish 

 brown, the portion next the shaft only being plain brown ; 

 larger wing-coverts of the same color as the outer margins of 

 the quills ; tail brown, edged with rufous, broadly externally 

 and narrowly internally ; all the feathers indistinctly rayed 

 across. From the breast to the vent, and the under wing- 

 coverts, a warm buff, tinged with ferruginous; shafts of the 

 feathers of the chin much lengthened and black ; rictal bristles 

 black, 0'3 long. 



The bill scarcely differs from that of sinensis though it may 

 be slightly shorter compared with its length, and may have the 

 nostrils more open ; aud the terminal half of the lower mandi- 

 ble more swollen and slightly more turned up. I do not think 

 it can be separated generically from sinensis. They differ less 

 from each other than longirostris, with its long, slender bill 

 aud large nasal covering, does from either. 



